Tom Burniece has over 30 years of experience in the storage industry and is currently the CEO of iVivity, the leading provider of high-performance Storage Network Processors. He is also on the Board of Directors of Ciprico, a publicly traded company, where he served for two years as Chairman of the Board. In addition, he is on the Board of Advisors of 3Tera, Inapac, and Matisse Networks, all privately-held companies. Tom served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at COPAN in 2004-2005. Prior to that, he was an independent consultant in Silicon Valley, as well as a partner in IN_fusion, the leading business development consultancy in the storage industry, specializing in strategy formulation, business development and due diligence. He has also served on the Board of Directors of Intoto and DAS Devices and was the CEO of Rutilus Software and Voelker Technologies, as well as a senior executive at Maxtor, Digital Equipment, and Control Data. Tom holds a BEE degree from the University of Minnesota and an MSEE degree from Arizona State University. He is also a graduate of MIT's Sloan Senior Executive Program.